Contributor
Westra, Laura.
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1998.
Descriptionxii, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Environmental and economic sustainability / Patricia H. Werhane -- PART ONE: THE PROBLEM WITH CONSUMPTION: Consumption: the economics of value added andthe ethics of value distributed / Herman E. Daly -- The need to face conflicts between rich and poor nations to solve global environmental problems / Donald A. Brown -- "The tragedy of the commons" revisited: a game theoretic analysis of consumption / Joel E. Reichart -- Institutionalizing overconsumption / Don Mayer -- Marketing, the ethics of consumption, and less-developed countries / George G.Brenkert -- Reducing the ecological footprint of consumption / William E. Rees -- Who should bear the burdens of risk and proof in changing consumption patterns? / John Lemons -- PART TWO: SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS OF CONSUMPTION: A nonanthropocentric environmental evaluation of technology for public policy: why Norton's approach is insufficient for environmental policy / Laura Westra -- Consumption and the practice of land health / Eric T. Freyfogle -- Environmental sustainability: eat better and kill less / R. Goodland -- Toward an ethic of consumption: rethinking the nature of growth / Rogene A. Buchholz, Sandra B. Rosenthal -- PART THREE: CONSUMPTION AND CORNUCOPIA: Scarcity or abundance? / Julian L. Simon -- Holes in the cornucopia / Ernest Partridge -- Do we consume too much? / Mark Sagoff -- PART FOUR: CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: A boat for Thoreau: a discourse on ecology, ethics, and the making of things / William McDonough -- Consuming oneself: the dynamics of consumption / Andrea Larson -- Toward a sustainable tomorrow / Michael E. Gorman, Matthew M. Mehalik, Scott Sonenshein, Wendy Warren -- Shades of green: business, ethics, and the environment / R. Edward Freeman, Jessica Pierce, Richard Dodd.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
